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With the initiation of women's suffrage in the United States, the nation has evolved
to accept the roles of women. Increasingly more and more women are moving out of the household, and into jobs that were
traditionally male. Women like Hilary Clinton(Pictured to the Right), Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Amelia
Earhart, Margaret Chase Smith, Rachel Carson, and Sandra Day O’Connor all
owe there successes to the work of Susan B. Anthony and her companions.
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The Women's Movement in the United States of America is a story of both hardships and miracles. Colonial American
life provided a catalyst for women to take on new roles in the household, and society. With this women gained suffrage
in many colonies.
Hardships were still common. The Salem Witch Trials resulted in the death of numerous women accused of being "witches."
The constitution, a shining torch of democracy, did not protect the right of women to vote, and all states came to remove
suffrage.
Abolition and the Women's Movement became tied, but with the closure of the Civil War, the abolition movement abandoned
women's rights for the garentee of suffrage for all free men. The Women's movement perservered and in 1920 women's suffrage
was granted.
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